why upgrade to hooks?

[npomfret]

I've been trying to upgrade from react-table 6 to 7 but have found it impossible. I'm wondering what the reasons for the internal upgrade to react hooks were. Implementing a table feels like an order of magnitude more complex now. Features seem to have gone missing. The docs aren't as clear. From a users perspective, what has improved between v6 and v7?

[efriandika]

Yeah I agree with you @npomfret ..
Until now, I am still avoiding react hooks, because of closure hell.
In my opinion, hooks is awesome and solve some cases, but I don't think hooks are readable in complex application..

lately, I can see some great react library have been migrating to hooks and end support for class component.. it makes me consider coming back to angular.. :'(

[npomfret]

Yeah, I'm sure hooks are awesome when used in the right way, but I've had to abandon list library in favour of react-bootstrap-table-next as it's so much simpler to implement.

Re-writing this lib with hooks is a fine idea if it makes the internals more elegant, but there's no reason for the user to be affected.

[Motoxpro]

@npomfret @efriandika I never used v6, but v7 is insanely powerful. From small tables to Asana tasklist style. User just handles the UI now, which makes it even more so. It sounds like v6 became a burden to maintain. #1897 (comment)

[tannerlinsley]

It's all tradeoffs. V6 was insane internally, but had a pretty great DX for drop-in solutions. However it wasn't very performant (or as good as it could have been), it was VERY difficult to style and extend, and it was a pain to maintain. V7 by contrast is headless, thus it has the ultimate flexibility in UI theming and extension and (for now) at the cost of not providing a drop-in solution like v6. V7 has become extremely easy to maintain, fix, upgrade etc, but as you said, it's all hooks now to make that possible.

Some of the "drop-in"-ness will return with time, but for now, I'm focusing on building a very strong core of performance, reliability and flexibility. Opinionated UI can either be done by you now, or by me much later after the core has been fleshed out more.